Host to Ghosts: Texas Capitol Home to LBJ, Others Houston Chronicle

Have some Texas politicians stuck around long after Election Day? There are reports from Austin, TX, that the ghosts of such Texas greats as Sam Houston, Alamo survivor Susanna Wilkerson Dickinson and former US President Lyndon Baines Johnson continue to haunt the area. And, at Haunted America Tours, Christopher Balzano asks What Is Going Bump in the Night?

Archaeologists Discuss Ancient America The Mining Journal

The fourth annual Ancient American Preservation Society Conference concludes today in Marquette, MI. Amateur archaeologists from around the world have been meeting to compare artifacts that suggest an ancient contact between the "old world" and the "new world." What evidence is there of ancient European and Middle Eastern trading missions to the Americas?